Google Stems Ad-Price Dip in Quarter

By

Amir Efrati And

John Letzing

Updated Jan. 22, 2013 7:14 p.m. ET

Google Inc. reversed the trend of slowing revenue growth in its core online-advertising business, signaling that the Internet giant is beginning to get a handle on how the consumer shift toward mobile devices is affecting the online-ad industry.

Google had been recently beset by concerns over the slowing revenue growth from ads on its Web-search engine, YouTube video site and other sites. A growing percentage of Google searches have...